Advanced Squad Leader player here.
I have probably played in excess of 1000 scenarios, along with hundreds of sessions of
For the People
Victory Games Fleet Series
etc
started on Tactics II as an 11-year-old.
great thread :)
growing up, I was a sucker for games with electronic components (The Black Tower, Stop Thief!, etc).
Axis and Allies eventually replaced Risk.
Fortress America and Shogun were a blast.
I played Stratego with my grandfather.
I remember my first group of gamer friends, and playing a lot of Car Wars, a game by Steve Jackson. Steve Jackson also put out Ogre, which was in the lexicon of the day, “way cool”.
Also got bit by the “Play By Mail” bug. Am I the only one here who used to look forward to getting their turns by mail? lol